Music history, daily
On This Day in Music
Composers born, composers lost, and pieces that met the world for the first time — and every name here is playable in the library.
- 1735Horace Coignet was born — French violinist and composer. source 291 years ago
- 1842Arthur Sullivan was born. 184 years ago
- 1909Ken Darby was born — American composer and conductor. source 117 years ago
- 1912Gil Evans was born — Canadian-American pianist, composer, and bandleader. source 114 years ago
- 1914Johnnie Wright was born — American singer-songwriter and guitarist. source 112 years ago
- 1937Evelyn Faltis died. 89 years ago
- 1945Lou Marini was born — American saxophonist and composer. source 81 years ago
- 2015Robert Drasnin died — American clarinet player and composer. source 11 years ago
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Every entry is drawn from our source-cited composer biographies and piece notes — dates come from published references, not from memory. Browse any composer to read the full biography, or the library to play their music.
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